"You know that Porton Down is where AIDs is said to have come from?

The "Green Monkey Disease" Thing was a cover up. Everyone i've asked in my parents generation say it was common knowledge at the time."

"Wasn't it also once common knowledge that traveling above 25 miles per hour would result in death by suffocation and that black people were inhuman animals?"

"Ooh, you mean common knowledge like Asbestos is a wonder material. pesticides will solve the world's food problems and more roads is the answer to traffic congestion, common knowledge?
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"Unfortunately your examples of 'common knowledge' can be ascribed to ignorance and popular prejudice, albeit capitalized upon. Where as my examples were deliberate deception, suppressing the real facts, inflating data that experts in the field knew to be insufficient and misleading the population for political gain. All by vested interests that have proved themselves untrustworthy time after time.

Markthegenius's parents generation have ample reason to be sceptical. Ergo, the increasingly common knowledge is that any 'official explanations' is most likely horses**t for covering someone's scam.
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